One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.